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Both methods can be circumvented quite easily and it will happen, if Transmission were to implement this. It's a cat and mouse game you can't win.
Ad blocking is a cat and mouse game. Anti censorship is a cat and mouse game. Anti fraud is a cat and mouse game. Anti spam is a cat and mouse game. I don’t see people giving up so easily on those problems.
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The main point of computers is not to make it easier for people, that mindset leads us to cede control of our lives to technology. The point of computing is to be a tool to make people more powerful and efficient, an extension of our abilities, able to do more or better.
Yes, I think we agree. That would fit within my definition of "things" in "make things easier". They can only do more/better with computers if the software is built to support them in that. If instead we insist that people focus on understanding the computer rather than doing the things they want to do, then they will do less and/or worse.
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This would be cool but part of me think that most web users will just leach to watch movies in their browsers.
Simply seeding for the 1+ hour you are watching the movie is typically enough to keep a torrent swarm healthy now that the majority of users have 10 Mbps+upload speeds. In that time, you can easily upload more data than you downloaded, meaning you are a net benefit for the swarm. In a general sense, any video content where the bitrate is lower than the typical users upload bitrate could work for a webtorrent only swa…
I haven't used torrent in a long time. Does it have any other usecase than piracy?
For instance, if you're in the infrastructure group in a company, and you need to distribute VM images around the place, it's great.
Good to see it being in active development. But the one feature I'm waiting for is a network whitelist. For example, it should never connect over my home or office network, but only via anonymous VPN. (Edit: I know you can do this already with firewall rules, or containers, but I don't trust myself to not make a mistake. Ideally this should be part of the OS. You should be able to right-click somewhere in the window…
Agreed. Users shouldn't have to understand firewall rules, containers, VMs, or even VPNs in order to tunnel traffic for a specific app through a (more) trusted third party. We need an open protocol for establishing tunnel/VPN connections. Apps implement the protocol, which lets you enter your tunnel provider and go through a quick OAuth flow to establish a tunnel. This would be a big win for VPN providers as well bec…
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> Downloading it from a side channel means you can buy it on your favourite platform and actually keep it on your computer. That would give the distribution platform the idea that what they are doing is OK. In this case, just download it and don't pay for it, if they are not actually providing you of any service. Vote with your wallet.
> Vote with your wallet. Just so you know (and stop using that phrase), there is no way scientifically or otherwise, to attribute the effect of non-sales to a feature, a service or anything else. Your opinion on the matter just never shows up during product decisions, planning or analysis. Your "vote" just doesn't exist.
Maybe the terminology is wrong, but I don't find the concept of "don't pay for what you cannot/won't use" wrong.
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Webtorrent allows you to download torrents from a stock iPhone: you use a JavaScript interpreter from the app store (that is allowed as per the app store guidelines, same for Python interpreter), then just run Webtorrent that works in JavaScript only. Like that I downloaded a lot of things while outside.
Wait, you're not allowed to run anything using the BitTorrent protocol on iOS? I never had the need myself, but I just assumed it would be allowed, because there is no reasonable explanation you wouldn't. Like the whole protocol is banned from the AppStore?
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Making secure practices simple (or automatic) for less-technical users is not “coddling”.
"Hey why are my torrent downloads running super slow?" "Oh, well, your torrent client decided to automatically use your vpn because it saw one running and somebody decided that was the right behavior because they thought you were dumb." Users have preferences. Users can read. Let them learn and sort it out. Don't ruin a simple program with tarred assumptions of what is correct for users. Prefer simplicity. Also don't…
But to be more specific with my feedback, it seems a bit silly that Transmission (I'm trying 4.0.0b1 right now) doesn't allow me to specify that it must use "VPN X" (as opposed to "VPN Y", which is also available) for downloads.
I understand that I could mess with namespaces or containers or VMs and probably make that work, but "use Bittorrent client with VPN" is more or less a universal use case and should be straightforward.
Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(
Could you explain what it is why it would be nice to have ?